‘Pretty unusual’: Dead woman discovered in teen’s truck bed, boy claims he thought he hit a deer but victim’s mom isn’t buying it — wants him charged as adult, reports say

An Oklahoma teenager charged with manslaughter allegedly told police he thought he plowed into a deer while driving down a dark road, but it was actually a 22-year-old woman — and her body somehow ended up in his truck bed.

“That’s pretty unusual,” said Master Sergeant Gary Knight with the Oklahoma City Police Department in a Crime Stoppers video broadcast by the local NBC affiliate KFOR. “To have a body end up in the bed of a truck. … That’s certainly not something we see every day.”

Raynesha Scyrus, the victim, was riding an electric scooter home from work when the 17-year-old driver allegedly mowed her down near Rockwell Avenue and Melrose Lane in Oklahoma City. The teen called his mom and drove to her workplace after striking Scyrus, police say…

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